Alex Zanardi news 2008-01-16

Dear Friends,
From this a bit unusual picture you probably understood that something
new is brewing...
Alex Zanardi.
Photo by Alex Zanardi Official Newsletter.
To be honest, though there are a lot of speculations about ...

Dear Friends,

From this a bit unusual picture you probably understood that something
new is brewing...

Alex Zanardi.

Photo by Alex Zanardi Official Newsletter.

To be honest, though there are a lot of speculations about my
participation to the Beijing's para-olympics, I did not decide yet. In
this moment I cannot decide because I don't have a real measure of my
potential in the handbike discipline which is absolutely necessary to
understand if an eventual participation would be an athletic gesture or
just a marketing one.

Nevertheless, to have this kind of information one needs to start from
somewhere and for this reason last Monday, together with Vittorio Podest?
and with the support of the friends of the Mapei Center of Varese, I took
for the first time "my pulse" in a scientific way in order to decide what
specific type of training I eventually need.

The response has been encouraging from one side and discouraging from the
other. The doctors of the center defined me as a "powerful engine but
badly tuned". This means that there is plenty of work to be done but a
lot of improvement margin as well. Who knows, a new adventure can maybe
begin...

Finally, I'd like to beg your pardon for not being very present on the
"Back and Forth" section of the website, but lately I just had the time
to read your messages. I really must find a couple of hours to answer to
all your curiosities!